Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Topic: Health & Illness

Lesson Notes May 13, 2025 (Vocabulary Building)

Words & Phrases

• Are you packed for your trip yet?

• “Check-in luggage” or “checked baggage”

• “Carry-on luggage” or “cabin baggage”

• Do you have any free-time during your trip?

Word Journal

• Horse chestnuts (noun)

• Wreck (verb)

• Deliberately (adv)

• Impersonate (verb)

• Once in a blue moon (idiom)

Appropriate Language

Injury Related words

• Broke

• fractured, snapped, cracked

• Bruise

• black and blue mark, sore spot, bump (informal)

• Burnt

• scorched, singed, blistered

• Cut

• scratch (a small cut), gash (a deep cut), wound

• Twisted

• sprained, turned, wrenched

• Wound

• injury, cut, gash

Luggage & Baggage

• You can use “luggage” instead of “baggage”, they mean the same thing

• Both “luggage” and “baggage” are uncountable nouns, so we don’t say “a luggage” or “a baggage.” Instead, say “a piece of luggage” or “two bags.”

Health & Illness

Section 3

• “A bruise under his eye” also means to have “a black eye”